Turns Quotes · Page 120

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down…

— Pope Francis

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars…

— Bruce Springsteen

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

— Abigail Van Buren

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

— Terry Pratchett

There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

— Martina Navratilova

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to…

— Charles Spurgeon

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the…

— Ramana Maharshi

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

— Andrew Bird

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river…

— Bruce Springsteen

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was…

— J. K. Rowling

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've…

— Juanes

There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the…

— Robert Altman

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus…

— Cynthia McKinney

There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always…

— Tom Glavine

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a…

— Slash

My mom is very religious and she said, 'Whatever you think about all the time, that's what you worship.' If that's the…

— Maria Bamford

If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A…

— Ah Ken

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant…

— Henry Louis Gates

Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall…

— Pope Pius XII

“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply…

— Carl R. Trueman

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,…

— Camille Paglia

When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or…

— Rachel Held Evans

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll…

— Franz Grillparzer

You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.

— Earl Nightingale

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

— John Stott

I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost…

— Alex Ferguson

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

— Mario Lemieux

I walk so fast, I talk so fast, I could turn the light off and be in bed before the room's dark.

— Roddy Piper

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do…

— Laura Dave

I've got a hold of something that won't move. It's a willingness to keep walking into the next day, open to whatever…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just…

— Malcolm Turnbull

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

— Herman Melville

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a…

— Thomas a Kempis

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

— Samuel R. Delany

When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

— George S. Patton

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with…

— Joy Harjo

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

— Grimes

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

— Evita Peron